Adjustable crotch for undergarments



S. F. SWANTEES. ADJUSTABLE CROTCH FOR UNDERGARMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED JULYZO, I92.

Patented 00t.24,1922.

Patented Get. 24, 1922., ll, l:

SAMUEL F. SWAN'I'EES, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

ADJUSTABLE GROTCH FOR UNDERGAEMENTS.

Appfication filed July 20, 1921. Serial No. 486,117.

To all whom it may concern: the buttonholes 6 fasten over the button 7Be it known that I, SAMUEL F. SwAN'rEns, sewed on the garment, and thebutton 3 a citizen of the United States, residing in fastens into thecorresponding one of the the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri,button holes 4:. The garment may be rein- 5 have invented new and usefulImprovements forced on the underside of the buttonholes in AdjustableCrotches for Undergarments, at so that they will not tear out when garofwhich the following is a specification, refment pulls and stretches.Likewise as to erence being had to the accompanying drawthe underside ofbuttonholes in the strap 2.

ings. In use, by letting out or drawing up the two 10 This invention isin the way of an adjuststraps equally at each side, the frontal crotchable crotch for undergarments. may be lengthened or shortened, to suitthe After undergarments are laundered they comfort of the wearer.

have a tendency to shrink. The object of WVhile I have herein describeda certain this invention, therefore, is to provide an specific method ofconstruction of the inven- 5 adjustable crotch for the undergarinenttion, it is understood I may vary from the which can be let out if thegarment shrinks, same in minor details, not departing from or taken inif the garment stretches, so as to the spirit of my invention as definedin the suit the comfort of the wearer. appended claims.

The objects are obtained by employing 00- I claim:

20 operating buttonholed and buttoned straps 1. An adjustable frontalcrotch for an which are crossed and then buttoned to the undergarmenthaving a frontal button set undergarment, thus forming a crotch whichupwardly upon the garment and to one side is readily adjustable andwhich can be kept of the lower, frontal opening thereof, and a closed,no matter what the stretching or row of frontal button holes upon theoppo- 25 shrinking. site side of said lower frontal opening, said In thedrawings: button holes being out along a line inclined Fig. 1 is afrontal. section of an undergarupwardly'and from the perpendicular; saidment constructed in accordance with this incrotch comprising a strapextended up anguvention, one strap being shown in dotted. larly fromeach side of said lower frontal 30 lines. opening and formingcontinuations of said Fig. 2 is a frontal section showing a porsides,one of said straps having a button and tion of the undergarment equippedwith the the other a number of button holes, to en- 35 button andbuttonholes for fastening straps. gage the said button holes and button,re-

Fig. 3 is a detail showing the construction spectively, of theundergarment. 35 of the straps. 2. In an undergarmcnt having a frontalThis invention consists in providing a button set upwardly upon thegarment and frontal crotch for the undergarment made to one side of thelower, frontal opening up of two straps 1 and 2, extending upanguthereof, and a row of frontal button holes larly from either side ofthe lower frontal upon the opposite side of said lower frontal 4 openingof the garment and forming conopening, said button holes being out alonga tinuations of said sides, the strap on one line inclined upwardly andfrom the perside, as 1, being equipped with a frontal pendicular; anadjustable frontal crotch for button 3 which is adapted to button intothe garment, same comprising a strap exany of the frontal buttonholes acut into the tended up angularly from each side of said 5 garment 5 uponthe opposite side along a lower frontal opening and forming continualineinclined upwardly and from the pertions of said sides, one of saidstraps having pendicular, while the strap 2 of the other a button andthe other a number of button side is equipped with buttonholes 6 toenholes, to engage the said button holes and gage the button 7 setupwardly upon the button, respectively, of the undergarment.

50 garment and to one side of the lower, frontal SAMUEL F. SWVAFITEFIS.

opening; there being a similar number of Witnesses: buttonholes 6 in thestrap 2 as there are CLAUDE B. Rronnr'rs,

buttonholes 4 in the garment. Anyone of lanes G. BAKER.

